Glasgow care worker convicted of sex offences against a child more than 30 years ago

A Glasgow care worker has been struck off after being convicted of historic sex offences against a child more than 30 years ago.

George Sands was convicted at Glasgow Sheriff Court on August 28, 2023 of "lewd, indecent and libidinous" actions towards a girl. He was found to have "repeatedly touch her vagina with [his] hand", watched her undress and watched her wash between July 1991 and July 1992.

On another occasion, he was also found to have assaulted another person by lowering her clothes and placing his penis between her legs between January and December 1991.

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The Scottish Social Services (SSSC) has now removed him from the register and condemning him as showing "no insight into [his] behaviour".

The decision reads: "You have been convicted of repeatedly using lewd, indecent and libidinous practices in relation to a child and indecently assaulting a person unknown to the SSSC. Your actions were likely to cause significant physical, sexual, psychological and emotional harm to others. Your actions bring into question your values and raise significant attitudinal concerns that do not correspond with the values and behaviour expected of a social services worker.

"Your convictions relate to sexual offences that fall far below the standard expected of a caring professional and is behaviour which is fundamentally incompatible with that of a caring professional and professional registration. The behaviour was prolonged and deliberate.

'You have shown no insight into your behaviour and we cannot be assured that there is no risk of repetition. There is an ongoing risk to public protection and a reasonable person in possession of all the information would consider the reputation of the profession to be damaged if you were to remain able to practise without restriction."

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